A57975:159
Lex, Rex
Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the aid and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet entitled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royal prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelate. : with a scriptural confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.Lex, rex The law and the prince : a dispute for the just prerogative of king and people : containing the reasons and causes of the most necessary defensive wars of the kingdom of Scotland and of their expedition for the ayd and help of their dear brethren of England : in which their innocency is asserted and a full answer is given to a seditious pamphlet intituled Sacro-sancta regum majestas, or, The sacred and royall prerogative of Christian kings, under the name of J. A. but penned by Jo. Maxwell the excommunicate P. Prelat. : with a scripturall confutation of the ruinous grounds of W. Barclay, H. Grotius, H. Arnisœus, Ant. de Domi P. Bishop of Spalata, and of other late anti-magistratical royalists, as the author of Ossorianum, D. Fern, E. Symmons, the doctors of Aberdeen, &c. : in XLIV questions.
London: printed for John Field, 1644London: printed for Iohn Field, 1644
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QUEST. V. Whether or no P. P. the Author of Sac. San. Regum Majestas, called the sacred and Royal Prerogative of Kings, proveth that God is the immediate Author of Sovereignty, and that the King is no creature of the peoples making?
QUEST. V. Whether or no P. P. the Author of Sac. San. Regum Majestas, called the sacred and Royall Prerogative of Kings, proveth that God is the immediate Author of Soveraignty, and that the King is no creature of the peoples making?
Consider first that the excommunicated Prelate saith, cap. 2. p. 19. Kings are not immediately from God, as by any special Ordinance sent from Heaven by the ministry of Angels and Prophets, there were but some few such; as Moses, Saul, David, &c. yet something may immediately proceed from God, and be his special work without a revelation or manifestation extraordinary from Heaven, so the designation to a sacred function is from the Church, and from man; yet the power of Word, Sacraments binding and loosing, is immediately from Jesus Christ. The Apostle Matthias was from Christs immediate constitution, and yet he was designed by men, Act. 1. The soul is by creation and infusion, without any special ordinance from Heaven, though nature begeteth the body, and disposeth the matter, and prepareth it as fit to be conjoined with the soul, so as the father is said to beget the son. Ans. 1. The unchurched Prelate striveth to make us hateful by the title of the Chapter, That God is (by his title) the immediate Author of Sovereignty; and who denieth that? Not those, who teach that the person who is King, is created King by the people, no more then those who deny that men are now called to be Pastors, and Deacons immediately,1 and by a voice from Heaven, or by the ministry of Angels and Prophets, because the Office of Pastors and Deacons is immediately from God. 2. When he hath proved that God is the immediate Author of Sovereignty. What then? shall it follow that the sovereign in concreto may not be resisted? and that he is above all Law; and that there is no armour against his violence but prayers and